"I hate cynicism a great deal worse than……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing"
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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More Cynicism Quotes
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Grub first, then ethics.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a…
— Ken Burns
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
— William S. Burroughs
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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
— George W. Bush
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
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There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
— Rosalynn Carter
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